Hi,
Juergen wrote a good explanation about the best format you should use to
provide your OpenOffice.org extension - OXT.
http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=website&msgNo=172
A site promoting and hosting OpenOffice.org extensions is in preparation
It will be available for your upload in a few weeks. This gives you time
to make yourself familiar with the OXT format. You will want to
distribute your additional functionality for OpenOffice.org as an OXT
package to achieve a good user experience and smooth integration with
the extension site.
For question please use the list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings
Stefan
The full text from Juergen is quoted below:
Juergen Schmidt wrote:
> Since OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 we have introduced *.oxt as the new file
> extensions for office extensions packages and *.oxt is a registered
> mime-type. With this mime-type we support smooth system integration
> (specification document [1]) which means that you can simply
> double-click an *.oxt file and the extension manager of your office
> installation is started automatically. Or when you download an *.oxt
> file the browser ask if you want to start the extensions manager to
> install the extension directly.
> We suggest to use *.oxt for your extension packages to make use of the
> smooth system integration but also to establish *.oxt as the default
> file extension for OpenOffice.org extensions. With the new package
> format you get some more useful features for extensions which we would
> also recommend as default.
>
> - a unique identifier for your extension (specification document [2])
> - version number (specification document [3])
> - minimal dependencies as well as more specific dependencies
> (specification document [4])
> - update URL (specification document [5])
> - simple license support (specification document [6])
>
> You can find more detailed info in the Extension's [7] chapter of the
> Developer's Guide or in the related specification documents.
>
>
>
[1]http://specs.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/specs/www/appwide/packagemanager/extension_system_integration.odt
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>
[2]http://specs.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/specs/www/appwide/packagemanager/extensionidentifiers.odt
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>
[3]http://specs.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/specs/www/appwide/packagemanager/extensionversion.odt
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>
[4]http://specs.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/specs/www/appwide/packagemanager/extensiondependencies1.odt
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[5]http://specs.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/specs/www/appwide/packagemanager/online_update_for_extensions.odt
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[6]http://specs.openoffice.org/source/browse/*checkout*/specs/www/appwide/packagemanager/simple_extension_license.odt
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>
>
[7]http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/Extensions/Extensions.xhtml
> (not yet available, comes with OO.org 2.3 and the update of the DevGuide)
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